I AM TOTALLY PUMPED UP NOW.

November 13, 2005 2:09 PM

Mortal Kombat! Test your might... by being able to watch the whole thing. And yet, still somehow better than the actual movie. (WMV link)
posted by XQUZYPHYR (28 comments total)

Is that boy wearing women's pants?
posted by sharksandwich at 2:17 PM on November 13, 2005

As a long-time MK fan, I have to say that this is hillarious. The bicycle kick was my favorite part, I think.

In all honesty, the first Mortal Kombat movie wasn't too bad. Probably the only watchable game-to-movie movie I've ever seen. The sequel though... *shudder*
posted by kryptondog at 2:22 PM on November 13, 2005

So this is what happens when you combine geek sensibilities with hipster style/haircuts. My favorite is when the character names come up and one of the two is apparently urinating in the closet.
posted by allen.spaulding at 2:24 PM on November 13, 2005

I failed the challenge to watch the whole thing.
posted by interrobang at 2:34 PM on November 13, 2005

it's the cool thing now, for guys to wear girl pants. it's hardcore. i'm totally serious.
posted by bam at 2:35 PM on November 13, 2005

Heh.
posted by Rothko at 2:43 PM on November 13, 2005

Boys getting girl haircuts and wearing girl pants are "in" apparently. Its like the '80s all over again.

Wonderful.
posted by SirOmega at 2:48 PM on November 13, 2005

That song is hilarious, and it almost saved the video. But....not quite. Anyone remember the Undeclared ep with that as the soundtrack to a chase scene? Awesome.
posted by graventy at 2:51 PM on November 13, 2005

The MK theme song! This brings back memories of me playing the Mortal Kombat cassette (before mp3s were even a gleam in your father's eye) for my very young son, who was obsessed with all things MK. This song in particular was played over and over and over. I really like it and am now going to listen to it about 20 times in a row. And hunt down the cassette, even though the theme song and the song about Johnny Cage were the only two good songs on it.

My nephew (19) wears girl's lowrise jeans and he has a girl bowl haircut. He looks cute.
posted by iconomy at 3:12 PM on November 13, 2005

who styled this video? what was that set about? hello, it's called 'lighting'
posted by sexyrobot at 3:20 PM on November 13, 2005

In the infamous words of Brian Griffin: "Cut. Print. Gay."
posted by evilash at 3:29 PM on November 13, 2005

MORTAL KOMBAT!

posted by kenko at 4:15 PM on November 13, 2005

I found the "Lend a Hand" poster in the background to be the most interesting part of the video.
posted by dsword at 4:46 PM on November 13, 2005

Oh to be in college again!
posted by aubilenon at 5:32 PM on November 13, 2005

Dude, enter the blood code.
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 6:04 PM on November 13, 2005

Woman/Girl pants? The knee-length shorts or the jeans?

Wouldn't pants cut for women not, like, fit very well... oh. Right. Nevermind.
posted by PurplePorpoise at 6:33 PM on November 13, 2005

With the particularly harsh (and accurate) criticism of how easy it is to beat MK with just "lo-punch" in the middle, I get the idea that it wasn't supposed to be funny, but rather a deep look at the gameplay advancements through the entire MK franchise.

Or it was two jerks with no sense of shame dancing around for three minutes. I want my giggle back.
posted by hoborg at 6:51 PM on November 13, 2005

But yet my Sailor Martin movies can't find an audience.
posted by maxsparber at 7:02 PM on November 13, 2005

Things I liked:

The T-shirts over the faces.

The dude with his pants down in the corner during the "Sonya" bit.

The cheap-arse lightning blast.

The fatality.
posted by Wataki at 7:59 PM on November 13, 2005

That was not good and in being not good it made me laugh and that made it good which made me feel bad.
posted by fenriq at 9:20 PM on November 13, 2005

I am not mighty. I capitulated after 30 seconds and closed the browser window.

As mentioned above, the first movie isn't bad... well... almost. Johnny Cage made it worthwhile.
posted by linux at 9:25 PM on November 13, 2005

Doesn't look like much of a fighter...
posted by Jon Mitchell at 12:59 AM on November 14, 2005

Praga Khan lemme rock you
Lemme rock you Praga Khan
Lemme rock you that's all I wanna do...

(For t3h n00bs, Praga Khan is - in addition to being part of Lords of Acid, Channel X, Digital Orgasm and several other things - the co-writer of the MORTAL KOMBAT techno tune.)
posted by deusdiabolus at 2:43 AM on November 14, 2005

The part where they are accurately reenacting the actual game's animation is dead on.
posted by kevspace at 2:55 AM on November 14, 2005

I actually enjoyed that, although it was a bit repetitive after a while. But who can resist some kid distorting his mouth yelling "MORTAL COMBAT!"?

Not I.
posted by neek at 4:34 AM on November 14, 2005

If you make a silly music video for the Mortal Kombat theme, I think that's pretty cool.

If you then use a kitschy household item to simulate Raiden's lightning, I'm fairly impressed.

If you then tell me that you pull your correctly-colored shirt over your face to emulate Scorpion and Sub Zero, while exposing your midriff to emulate Sonya, I reverently fellate you while holding back tears.
posted by DWRoelands at 4:38 AM on November 14, 2005

metafilter: I reverently fellate you while holding back tears.
posted by stilgar at 5:57 AM on November 14, 2005

I managed three seconds.
posted by CynicalKnight at 7:56 AM on November 14, 2005